Stack Emissions Testing and Monitoring

Compliance Monitoring in Industrial Processes

Environmental compliance monitoring of process emissions to air is an essential service required by all businesses which hold an IPPC permit. TÜV SÜD’s stack emissions monitoring provision offers clients a reliable, experienced service, gained through provision of monitoring services to the Environment Agency and SEPA. We provide competitive rates across the UK and overseas.

We are a UKAS accredited testing laboratory, No.0432, accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 and CEN/TS 15675:2007 for emissions monitoring projects. Our organisation is certified under the MCERTS scheme and our experienced personnel hold the appropriate MCERTS qualifications. We are also certified to ISO 9001 for all non-accredited activities, such as consultancy. Operating to these quality standards provides assurance that we fully meet the exacting requirements of the UK regulatory bodies.

Services include:

• Compliance check monitoring  
• EN 14181 (QAL2) testing and auditing  
• Plant commissioning  
• Abatement efficiency tests  
• Dispersion modelling & stack height calculations
• Ambient air surveys
• Flow rate meter checks to EN 16911-2
• Odour monitoring

Process types include:

• Energy-from-Waste
• Power plant including CHP  
• Biomass
• Chemical industry  
• Mineral industry  
• Paper

UKAS and MCERTS emissions to air sampling includes:

• Particulates (Dust) – BS EN 13284-1:2017 – Gravimetric   
• Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) – BS EN 14792:2017 – Chemiluminescence   
• Sulphur Dioxide (SO₂) –  PD CEN/TS 17021:2017 – Non-dispersive infrared   
• Carbon Monoxide (CO) – BS EN 15058:2017 – Non-dispersive infrared   
• Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) – CEN/TS 17405:2020 – Non-dispersive infrared   
• Oxygen – BS EN 14789:2017 – Zirconia cell
• Hydrogen Chloride (HCl) – BS EN 1911:2010 – Wet chemistry
• Fluorinated Compounds (as HF) - CEN/TS 17340:2020
• Sulphur Dioxide (SO₂) – BS EN 14791:2017 – Wet chemistry
• Dioxins & Furans – BS EN 1948-1:2006 – XAD resin
• Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) – BS EN 1948-4:2010 – XAD resin
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) – BS ISO 11338-1:2003 – XAD resin
• Metals – BS EN 14385:2004 – Filter / wet chemistry  
• Mercury – BS EN 13211:2001 – Filter / wet chemistry
• Metals & Mercury – EA MID 14385 – Filter / wet chemistry
• Total Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) – BS EN 12619:2013 – Flame Ionisation Detector
• Speciated VOCs – PD CEN/TS 13649:2014 – Sorbent tube
• Water vapour – BS EN 14790:2017 – Gravimetric 
• Pressure, temperature, velocity & flow rate – BS EN 16911-1:2013

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